[186019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gmail spam filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Filip Hruska)
Sun Nov 22 13:44:38 2015
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From: Filip Hruska <fhr@fhrnet.eu>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:33:29 +0100
In-Reply-To: <7597897.40.1448211795254.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
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You might need to setup/change a SPF record for that domain. I always
had Google marking my email as spam when I tried to send emails with no
SPF record.
On 11/22/2015 06:03 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Bout a month ago, I had someone crack a POP password on my private mail server,
> and got a couple days of spam out through it before I caught it on Sunday
> afternoon.
>
> I locked it down, and am this weekend replacing that mail server with one
> of current vintage, serving the same domain from a linode instance on a
> different IP and, obviously, transport network.
>
> I'm finding, though, that gmail is spam-filing the emails I send out,
> presumably because they're on the same domain name in the envelope.
>
> Anyone got a pointer to where I go to assure Google I'm on top of it now?
>
> The mail delivers to their inbound MX ok, it just ends up in the spam folder,
> even on my business GoogleApps account. Delivers to Yahoomail just fine.
>
> I checked the new IP in the MXtoolbox RBL checker, and no hits, but does
> gmail know what ranges are assigned to VPS providers, like with the cable
> swamp, and bias its spamchecking accordingly?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
